Harry G. Haskell Jr.

Harry Garner Haskell Jr. (27 May 1921-16 January 2020) was a member of the US House of Representatives (R-DL) from 3 January 1957 to 3 January 1959 (interrupting Harris B. McDowell Jr.'s terms) and Mayor of Wilmington from 7 January 1969 to 9 January 1973 (succeeding John E. Babiarz Sr. and preceding Thomas C. Maloney).

Biography
Harry Garner Haskell Jr. was born in Wilmington, Delaware in 1921, and he served in the US Coast Guard Reserve during World War II; he was discharged in 1946 with the rank of Lieutenant. He worked as a dairy and farming businessman before working as a consultant to a special assistant in the Eisenhower administration during the 1950s. He was a delegate at every Republican National Convention from 1952 to 1984, and he served in the US House of Representatives from 1957 to 1959, supporting the Civil Rights movement. He was defeated for re-election in 1958, but he went on to serve as Mayor of Wilmington from 1969 to 1973. He died in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania in 2020 at the age of 98.